March 04, 2012

"Reasons" [by Maya Beerbower]

I enjoy you the way that oneenjoys eating uncooked tofu. You're enjoyablelike listening to an old man mouthbreathebehind me in a dark movie theater, likewalking through Chinatown's seafood marketon trash day in the rain.

I feel good about you in the same wayI feel good about pulling strands of someone else's wet hair from the shower drain or forcinga worm onto a fishhook with a dull squishor going through my father's freezer trying to identifydinner from things-to-feed-the-snake.

Other women can still love youbecause they don't know how you leavechewed off fingernailson counters. They don't knowyou won't wash out the sink afteryou shave and I find the stubblein my toothbrush, or that you refuseto turn on the air conditioning when it's 103 degreesbecause you say it makes your skin look bad.Other women don't know you're a sissy.

I cannot love you due to:d) all of the above.Also, because you ask me to tie your shoes,and I mean you ask me all the time.

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"Reasons" [by Maya Beerbower]

I enjoy you the way that oneenjoys eating uncooked tofu. You're enjoyablelike listening to an old man mouthbreathebehind me in a dark movie theater, likewalking through Chinatown's seafood marketon trash day in the rain.

I feel good about you in the same wayI feel good about pulling strands of someone else's wet hair from the shower drain or forcinga worm onto a fishhook with a dull squishor going through my father's freezer trying to identifydinner from things-to-feed-the-snake.

Other women can still love youbecause they don't know how you leavechewed off fingernailson counters. They don't knowyou won't wash out the sink afteryou shave and I find the stubblein my toothbrush, or that you refuseto turn on the air conditioning when it's 103 degreesbecause you say it makes your skin look bad.Other women don't know you're a sissy.

I cannot love you due to:d) all of the above.Also, because you ask me to tie your shoes,and I mean you ask me all the time.